From Middle English rower, rowere, roware, equivalent to row + -er.

• (British) IPA: /ˈɹəʊ.ə(ɹ)/

rower (plural rowers)

1. One who rows.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter VI, in For the Term of His Natural Life:

     It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.

   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC ↗, page 89 ↗:

     Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men’s fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been.

2. A rowing machine.
   • 1988, Richard Allen Winett, Ageless athletes, page 65:

     Aerobic and weight training sessions should also complement each other. For example, on a day you work your upper body with weights, you can use a rower for aerobics.

• French: rameur
• German: Ruderer
• Italian: rematore, rematrice
• Portuguese: remador, remeiro
• Russian: гребе́ц
• Spanish: remero, remador, boga, bogador